Horst Mahler

Horst Mahler (23 January 1936-) was a founder of the German Red Army Faction militant group.

Biography
Horst Mahler was born on 223 January 1936 in Haynau, Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany. His father was a fanatical Nazi who killed himself in 1949, while Mahler would join the socialist student body at his school and join the Red Army Faction in 1970. Mahler was one of its founding members, as he was a Maoist ideologue. On 8 October 1970, he was arrested upon returning to West Germany from Jordan after training with the PFLP, and he was sentenced to fourteen years in prison in 1974. Mahler converted to fascist politics while he was in jail, and he refused liberty when the 2 June Movement was able to secure the possibility of his release. After his release, he was one of the founders of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany, but he left the part in 2003 after criminal cases against the party were launched. On 21 February 2009, he was sentenced to six years in prison for refusing to give up his nationalist tendencies, having thrown up a Hitler salute in 2007.